Medan – Dozens of students from the Medan branch of the Indonesian National Student Movement (GMNI) in North Sumatra held a demonstration in front of the Medan city Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) building on Wednesday June 17.

Yogyakarta – A discussion held at the University of Yogyakarta (UGM) Joglo Innovation and Creative Hub (GIK) in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta featuring several state officials, ended in chaos after it was besieged by hundreds of students on Monday evening June 16.

Taufiq Syarifudin, Jakarta – Student representatives from Bung Karno University (UBK) and MH Thamrin University who were demonstrating at the Horse Statue in Central Jakarta, have been able to meet with Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

Makassar – Students from the Alauddin Makassar State Islamic University (UIN) in South Sulawesi have demonstrated demanding that the administration of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka carry out restructuring for cabinet effic

Surabaya – Protesters calling themselves the Surabaya People's Challenge Alliance held a demonstration in front of the Grahadi State building in Surabaya, East Java, on Monday June 15. The action was held as a form of protest against a number of government policies that are considered detrimental to society.

Medan – A demonstration by hundreds of students from the University of North Sumatra (Sumut) in front of the North Sumatra Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) took up a number of demands directed at the government ranging from reevaluating the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) program, budget transparency, to job creation.

Rika Ira – The increase in the price of non-subsidized Pertamax fuel (BBM) amidst the weakening of the economy has triggered student demonstrations. In Central Java, student protests were held in three areas, namely Banyumas, Semarang City and Solo.

Yogyakarta – Hundreds of students and civil society groups in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta calling themselves the People's Calling Alliance (Aliansi Rakyat Memanggil) held a demonstration at the Gejayan intersection in Depok, Sleman, on Saturday afternoon June 13.

Poki: Mum, tomorrow we've be told to bring handicraft tools [to school], [but] we haven't bought any yet.

Mother: Why didn't you tell me yesterday? Not late at night like this!! It's very sudden.

Poki: If I'd told you this afternoon you'd have been angry.

Mother: Now I'm even angrier.

Guard: This is lunch for MBG corruption suspects. Guaranteed to be free, nutritious and free of poison.

Hanifah Salsabila, Ambaranie Nadia Kemala Movanita, Jakarta – Thousands of students have taken to the streets again to protest fuel price hikes near the Hotel Indonesia (HI) traffic circle in Central Jakarta on Friday June 12.

Responding to the street protests by students from several universities in Jakarta today, June 12, Amnesty International Indonesia's Executive Director Usman Hamid, said:

Jakarta – A grouping of students, including members of the University of Indonesia Student Executive Board (BEM UI), who were holding a demonstration, were held up in the Tosari area on Jalan Sudirman in Central Jakarta on Friday afternoon until the evening on June 12.

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition for Police Reform rejects the rushed ratification of the Draft Law on the National Police of the Republic of Indonesia (RUU Polri).

Mother: The number of rats are growing fast. Where's father Terong (eggplant)? Get him to help us!!!

Kid: Dad keeps going away.

Jakarta – The Advocacy Team for Democracy (TAUD) has strongly criticised a military court hearing the case of four Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers accused of dousing rights activist Adrie Yunus with acid after the military prosecutor (Oditur) demanded a sentenc

Singgih Wiryono, Jakarta – Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) activist As'ad Aras recounted one of the dark rooms where GSF activists were tortured after being captured by Israeli soldiers.

Jakarta – The Education and Teachers Association (P2G) has criticised President Prabowo Subianto's instruction for all schools in Indonesia to start requiring French as a subject.

Twenty-eight years after reformasi – the political reform process that began in 1998 – Indonesia is showing increasingly serious signs of democratic decline.

Josi: Waduhhh, how come it keeps going down?!

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has been widely ridiculed over remarks made during a speech in Nganjuk, East Java, in which he said that the decline in the rupiah's exchange rate does not directly affect rural communities.